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The black man, original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. "The devil white man," down through history, out of his devilish nature, had pillaged, murdered, raped, and exploited every race of man not white.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapter 10, p. 108
White people, also known as whites or crackers (in the USA) are a loosely defined racial group that emerged in the 17th century for purposes of eugenics. It generally includes light-skinned people of European descent but often excludes certain European groups such as Irish people[1] and Russians.[2]
History
The concept of race first began in Spain with the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and allowed the Spanish monarchy to continue oppressing them even after some converted to Christianity. In the early 17th century, the English defined the Irish as racially inferior while colonizing northern Ireland.[1]
During the colonization of America, whiteness emerged as a form of class collaboration against indigenous peoples. The first use of "white" in an official document was in Virginia in 1691.[3] Karl Marx wrote that this racial divide was a major obstacle for the workers' movement.[4] Many white workers and peasants such as John Brown and Newton Knight soon turned against their ruling class.[5]
Famous white people
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'Culture of Conquest' (pp. 36–9). ReVisioning American History. [PDF] Boston: Beacon Press Books.
- ↑ “Now we see even Western media outlets like the Wall Street Journal portrayed Putin as a Mongol? Trying to link so-called authoritarianism to Asiatic heritage.”
Ben Norton and Michael Hudson (2023-05-24). "Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world" Geopolitical Economy Report. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. - ↑ Eugene Puryear (2022-07-10). "The U.S. state and the U.S. revolution" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-06-04.
- ↑ “In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”
Karl Marx (1867). Capital, vol. 1: 'The Working-Day'. [MIA] - ↑ Paul Wilcox (2020-09-07). "Abolitionist solidarity — Black and white — in the struggle against slavery" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10.